During the Ice Age, massive woolly mammoths, cave bears, and dire wolves roamed icy landscapes. Saber-toothed cats hunted with precision, and the gigantic Megalania dominated prehistoric Australia.

Learn more about some of the most unique dinosaurs, prehistoric reptiles, and flying reptiles discovered in 2024.

The prehistoric creature is thought to have lived around 280-270 million years ago and was likely a "top predator" in its day ...

Smithsonian Magazine offers up a few other ancient creatures that could fit the bill, including Nile crocodiles, goannas, and ...

A complete and well-preserved jaw that once belonged to an ancient mastodon has been unearthed from the yard of a home in New ...

Other prehistoric animals, however, may not have had such a dominating presence. Take procolophonids, for example. These small, lizard-like animals belong to a group called parareptiles ...

It’s about to get all prehistoric in Southern California as creatures from the past return to take people back to Jurassic ...

New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the ...

Yana is estimated to have been only about one year old when she died. She weighs more than 397 pounds and measures about 4 ...

Wes Plummer collected shoulders from bison, elk, cattle and many other animals for three years until he had enough to build a ...

Thewissen and his team dug deeper—both literally and metaphorically. This creature these fossils belonged to was no bigger than a domestic cat and had possibly looked like a chevrotain ...